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Waahiactoa Jl Fourteen th atreet. N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Addreaa eommnnlcationi relating to newa end editorial Batter to Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. OCTOBER CIRCULATION 53,818 Daily Sunday 50,252 Dwtirht William., eirenlatlon manager of The Bee nMlehtng eonpanr, being duly awom, eeye that the aeerace circulation for the month of October, Hie, waa SM1S daily, and 50.162 Sander. DW10HT WILLIAMS. Circulation Manager. Snbacribed in my preeence and iworn to before me thai 4th dar ct November. 1916. & W. CARLSON, Notary Pobne. SobaeriWs luring tha city temporarily abonld ban Th Boa mailed to them. Ad elrwee will ba changed aa often a required. Th joy-ride-killer is no respecter of persons. International courtesy law to the scrap heap. follows international A pipe line to Omaha from the Wyoming oil fields is entirely feasible, but it will not build itself. Molasses catches more flies than vinegar. Why scold folks for not giving to Christmas funds? On the score of health as much as economy, there is much to commend the movement ta boy cott cold storage eggs. Yes, but isn't it rubbing it in a little to put all that fine poultry on exhibition right in the face of Thanksgiving day? A referendum election costs the taxpayers of Omaha four to five thousand dollars. The tax payer, however, is a patient animal. The fathers of Thanksgiving day deserve a pious thought for their tasteful impulse in pass- i ing up lame ducks as a holiday delicacy. No self-appointed charter-tinkering committee I yet I And the legislative session only a little I more than a month off. What's the matter? An ordinance imposing severe penalties on the practice of heaving hammers at municipal limou sines properly takes precedence under the head of new business. i If Governor Morehead's "poor food inspector" had announced his positive and irrevocable re tirement earlier his constitutional amendment might have fared better. If the kindness of the weather man holds out, ' that stretch of repavement on our main thor- oughfare, which has been kept torn up for two jt i months, may possibly be completed this year. ,. The notion still persists among the home I '- guard that Great Britain is fighting the world's i battle for freedom. The delusion constitutes the I most satisfying feature of the campaign thus far. : ' Congressman Fitzgeratd of Brooklyn boldly : defies rural lightning in urging an embargo on i exports of American grain. His district con is tains host of bakers and mighty few farmers, if The London editor protests too much against , peace moves in this country. The chief signifi ' cance of the outburst lies in the tone of lofty ( patriotism which distinguishes mouth-fighting in : war times. A fashion oracle of the male persuasion in Chicago tells women what cut of garments they will wear next spring. Which suggests that political equality is not the only string in the emancipation fiddle. "What might have been," the melancholy spec- ' ter of national folly, haunts Carranza circles. Had , the supersensitive first chief co-operated with the American expedition from the start there is hardly a doubt that Villa would have been captured and put out of business. Opportunity called, but Tolly paid no heed and now pays the price. Nebraska Press Comment Neligh Leader: The retail dealers in coal in the cities are certainly putting the crimp into the consumer. While the retail prices of coal in the smaller towns has advanced materially, it has not been nearly so much as the advance in the cities, coal selling in many places having a cheaper freight rate than interior points at hieher prices. It is evidently a lot like many of the other increases in prices, simply taking advantage of the general upward trend to squeeze the public Aurora Republican: The next election in Ne braska will be simplified to the extent of elimi nating two political parties, anyway. The pro gressives failed to poll 1 per cent of the total vote of the state and are therefore automatically retired from the field. The populists failed to bold a convention and comply with other legal requirements, and they will also be ruled off the ballot. Nebraska is said to have been the last state in which the people's independent party existed. It was the death bed as well as the cradle of populism. Dakota City Eagle: Some legislator can gain tame and glory by introducing a bill in the com ing Nebraska legislature, and see that it be comes a law, providing for relief in our voting system, and especially in the counting of the bal lots. A double shut election board seems to be the simplest remedy so far suggested. Let the counting ot votes commence soon alter toe vol ing commences and then soon after the polls are closed the result can be ascertained without hiving to wait from two to five days. The cost would be no more than under the present sys tem and the job would not be shunned by high class persons, which it is advantageous to have nil these positions. Great Britain's Ungracious Refusal. The refusal of Great Britain to grant a safe passage to the new Austrian ambassador to the United States is as ungracious as it is uncalled for. Nor is it made any the more bearable be cause of the pretext on which the action is predi cated. To insinuate that the behavior of diplo matists of the Teutonic powers is warrant for declining to permit them to visit the countries to which they are accredited is to exhibit incredible animosity. Great Britain has no right to assume that sentiment in the I'nited States is unfavor ably affected towards one side by reason of the presence of representatives of the other. If this were so the British are open to the accusation of seeking undue advantage by excluding the ambas sador of an enemy. The dismissal of Dr. Dumba should be convincing proof of the sincerity of our government in this regard. Many matters calling for diplomatic action arise between the United States and Austria in which Great Britain has but collateral or remote concern, but these must be delayed to suit the pleasure of the British government. The cause of the Allies will not be helped by this action, nor will John Bull's atti tude as guardian of the world be strengthened. It may also be of interest to know if the precedent will be followed when the American ambassador to Germany seeks to return to his post at Berlin. Speculating on the Senate. Political dopesters down at Washington are already speculating upon the complexion of the United States senate after two years from now. They call attention to the fact that while the republicans, as a result of the last election, have cut down the democratic majority from sixteen to twelve, they would still have to win seven places on the next round to gain control. It is further explained that of the batch of thirty-two senators to be voted on in 1918 thirteen are re publicans and nineteen are democrats, of which twelve are from southern states, so that the repub licans would have to bold their own and gain all of the expiring democratic senatorships outside of the south. On the face of it this looks like an impossible situation, but it is not altogether hopeless, be cause we sometimes have kaleidoscopic political changes. There is always a fair prospect that we may have more than thirty-two senatorial places to fill for the next following congress. Let it be remembered, too, that we have just chosen two new senators from each of the states of Maine and Indiana. True, this was due to deaths of incumbents, and still it will be the exception, rather than the rule, hereafter, with our direct popular choice of senators, to have an election in which some state does not have to choose two senators at a time. For republicans to capture the senate may be a long chance, but no more so than most of the political maneuvering to change control of a leg islative body, and stranger things have often hap pened, as our history attests. Hunger Strike and Food Prices. Russian prisoners have been known to bring hard-hearted jailors to terms by going on a hunger strike. These are to be imitated by Amer ican housewives, who propose to abstain from buying foods on which the price has been inordi nately increased. As a protest, this may be spec tacular, but its usefulness remains to be estab lished. One holder of stored-up food product calmly defies the public, courts and all to move him from his purpose. He holds the food in storage and tells the consumer if he wants to eat this particular sort of nourishment he must pay the price. Neither attitude is correct. The public should have the benefit of all improved methods for preserving food, that the plenitude of summer may be extended over the lean months of winter, and the owners of the storehouses should have a reasonable profit for their share. This is another place where the authority of the whole people must be exercised, for its outcome does not rest on spasmodic action by a few. A hunger strike is only a protest and not a remedy. Omaha's Unemployed Nurses. Ordinarily much sympathy goes out to any unemployed class of workers, but Omaha just now has one division of its army of toilers on the idle list which it is willing to have stay there. The trained nurses set up complaint that the city has become so healthy that they are unable to earn a living at their calling. This is unfortunate for the nurses, but the other inhabitants will try to abide the condition. It is merely bearing out claims for the community, made by The Bee for lo these many years, that Omaha ought to be an ideal spot for health. Omaha has the correct combination of salubrious climate, invigorating altitude and intelligent citizenship, under which bodily well-being is an assured condition of life. Here's hoping that nothing like destitution over takes the nurses, nor that any sudden and urgent demand for their services overwhelms the city. Work for the Legislature. When the Nebraska legislature comes together in January it will find plenty of work waiting for it, mostly in the way of making repairs on the output of preceding legislatures. A general de mand is heard from all over the state for altera tion or improvement of existing laws. This evi dence that efforts at regulation have not all worked out as well as had been anticipated is not surprising. Our habit of resorting to the passage of a law to correct some local or temporary con dition has led us into a veritable morass of statu tory complication. Most of the measures enacted into law by the legislatures have been hastily constructed and not well considered, and so bring confusion rather than relief. It is an inevi table experience of a growing state that its regu latory statutes must not only be elastic, but must also be subject to frequent revision, but in Ne braska following this theory, we have gone to ex tremes. Much that is now the subject of law might better have been left to the common sense of the people. "Be it enacted" is not a magical formula for the solution of all of man's per plexities. Will Irvin, war correspondent, just home from the front, predicts two more years of war. Other experienced correspondents predict two, three and even four more years of slaughter. These prophecies of continued woe fail to indicate where the cannon fodder will come from. If it took even ten street lamps to equal a policeman, the proposed new street lighting con tract would be the same as adding 100 men to the force at no additional cost Jack London's Own Story as Told Seventeen Years Ago It would be a fascinating experience, would it not, if you could ask a famous man to tell you something about himself and he accommodat ingly complied? Well, that is what we have here from Jack London in the following characteristic and interesting letter written nearly seventeen years ago to M. L. Osborne, associate editor of the National Magazine, who encorporates it in an article in the current issue of that periodical: Oakland, Cal March 24, 1900. My Friend: In reply to yours of March 19, in which you kindly offer to give a review of my book and ask for data. Find herewith a couple of clip pings which may be of use to you; also, I shall supplement them where I may imagine it to be essential. Please do not be led away by the error in one of them relating to my birthplace. I was born in San Francisco and am a Californian by birth as well as residence. I was 24 years old last January. I lived on Californian ranches until my tenth year, when my family removed to Oakland, a city, I believe, now boasting 80,000 inhabitants. By fits and starts I acquired a grammar school education, but rough life always called to me, my whole ancestry was nomadic (its destiny being apparently to multiply and spread over the earth), so at 15 I, too, struck out into the world. I did not run away. My people knew the strain in the blood, so I went with consent. I first went faring amongst the scum marine population of San Francisco hay, where I got down close to the naked facts of life. It was a most adventurous experience, and one (like all the rest) which I have never regretted. I there learned the rudiments of seamanship, handling small craft in the sternest of weather, till, the month I was 17, I was fitted to ship be fore the mast as an able seaman. Went to Japan, seal-hunting on the Russian side of Behring sea, etc. It was the longest voyage I ever took (seven months); life was too short to admit ot more. But I have taken many short ones and have served in divers forecastles, stock-holes, etc., and am at home anywhere. When I turned 18, having taken an interest in economics and sociology, I went tramping (to the manner born) throughout the United States and Canada. Since then have continued those studies, but in a more conventional and theo retical way. I dabbled at high school, took a brief fling at the state university, b;it failed to complete my tresnman year (not tailed trom a scnoiany standpoint) and hurried away with the first rush into the Klondike. Have mined and camped through the Sierras and other places, etc Never having been unwise enough to learn a trade, I have worked at all sorts of hard labor. When in the Klondike my father died and I returned to take charge of the family. Have never been rash enough to put out a sheet anchor in the form of a wife. But when I returned from the Klondike I resolved to make the fight of my life by making my living with my pen. This was precarious, for my assets were nil and my liabilities legion. I was also a beginner, knew noihing of markets, methods of editors, needs or how to furnish those needs. My literary life is thus about 14 months old, during which time I have striven to find myself, from the writing of troilets to blank verse, and from feature arti cles for yellow journals to really ambitious short stories. Consequently I have turned out a vast deal of hack work. And little ambitious work. Nor have I yet been so financially situated that I could try anything long. "The Son of the Wolf," as -youu discover, is a collection of short stories. These were written to supply a pressing need for cash and were pub lished principally in the Overland Monthly of San Francisco; also in Atlantic Monthly. Then they were collected (nine of them) and submit ted successfully to Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin k Co. These gentlemen will supply you with electro types of myself, I doubt not, though you may have to ask for them. The Overland Monthly, April (if the article is not delayed), will prob ably furnish you with further data should you need it. Said article is to be written by Mrs. Ninette Eames, who knows me personally, but I do not know what she intends saying in it. Thanking you for past and present kindnesses, I beg to remain, very sincerely yours, JACK LONDON. Goose and Turkey -Chtcego Tribune- Dinner table conventions, concerning diet as well as manners, are a part of the traditions of a nation. Our conventions are costly as they relate to food, and just now economy and conventions are struggling against each other. American habit demands a turkey on Thanks giving, and that custom is as firmly fixed as any thing that American tradition encourages. The bird not only furnishes noble baked meats, but it comes to thetable out of pictures the Ameri cans holds in warm affection, pictures of John Aldens and Priscillas, of resolute men carry bell mouthed firearms, pictures of deep forests, snow bound villages, of hearths and great fireplaces. On Thanksgiving the American family not only roasts a turkey but also makes it an offering to national sentiment but in the produce markets turkey is offered to the retailer at JO to 32 cents a pound, and the retailer gets what he can for it. In the same produce markets the retailer is of fered geese at 19 to 20 cents a pound. The goose represents a German, and to a less extent an English, idea of joviality. As any for tunate lover of the flesh pots will agree, it is an extremely good bird. It has as many points in its favor as the turkey, and economy suggests that it be substituted for the turkey. It is not a difficult fowl to raise. The turkey is a risk. There is tremendous pressure upon the market for tur keys. The goose market is easy. It is a fine thing to conserve American tradi tions, even traditions of eating. We have few that are solid and enduring, but a tradition which runs up meat and grocery bills and bleeds the family pocketbook needs examination for its real value. For the sake of tradition, for the sake of the pictures which are in the mind of the American household, even economy might yield a point on Thanksgiving, but why make turkey the essential fowl for Christmas or other memorable days? Then, at least, the goose stands temptingly to appetite as the bird of greater traditions. It is connected with many of the cheerful festivals of F.urope. It is a thing of gustatory excellence. And in American markets its price recommends it. Its savor is something to make trenchermen of dyspeptics. People and Events St. Paul restaurant men are boosting a nation wide movement to hit the egg trust by refusing to serve eggs. Where there's a will there's a way to fight back. Boom towns are springing up along the new government railroad line in Alaska. A real estate boom in that section dispenses with the strain of digging through frozen ground for "pay dirt" Sing Sing prison has the smallest number of guests it has had in many years. The noted in voluntary retreat seems to have lost social stand ing since T. Mott Osborn quit the job. Back in little old New York an addition of $1 to the price of coal mounted to $5 a ton when passed to the consumer buying by the pailful. Wonderful how a rise in price gathers volume as it slips along. A social survey at Gary, Ind., found a girl earning $6 a week who had just finished paying for a $22.50 pair of up-to-date boots at the rate of $1 a week. The girl's ambition matched the reach of the shoetnan. 1 TODAY Thought Nugget, for the Day. We ought not to look bark, unless it la to derive useful lesions from pant errors, and for the purpose of pruiit ing by dear-bouKht experience. Geonce Washington. One Year Ago Today In the War. Allien pressed Dardanelles attack by land and sea. Earl Kitchener held council with war chiefs at Paria, Snow prevented fighting on Allied front in Herbta. German emperor attended war council in Vienna. Paris reported gains for the French north of "the labyrinth.' In Omaha Thirty Years Ago. President Meyer of the Board of Trade selected the following gentle men to present the claims of Omaha in regard to the removing of the In dian supply depot from New York: H. W. Yates, H. Kountze, Guy C. Bar ton, Joseph Garneau, jr., Max Meyer, G. L. Miller, J. E. Boyd and John A. McShane. A meeting was held to receive the newly-organized Hillside Congrega tional church into full fellowship. The Congregational pastors of the city and several from abroad were present Among the visitors was Dr. G. W. Crofts, pastor of the Congregational church of Council Bluffs. An expressman named Carlyle, while accommodating a poor family by moving their household goods for them, tell and broke his leg. ue was taken to his home on Pacific street and the fracture was reduced by Dr. Darrow. While Gus Horst, who lives near Florence lake, was leading a horse to water, it became frightened and Jumped upon Mr. Horst, knocking him down and tramping upon his head and face. Dr. Carpenter, assistant Union Pacific surgeon, was called to attend to Horst's injuries. J. Sterling Morton smilingly made his appearance in the rotunda of the Paxton, his diamond and onyx rings flashing from the middle finger of his left hand and an oval cameo encased In twisted gold reposing upon his ample scarf; Sam Jones gave it as his opinion that the increase in the membership of the churches, caused by his re vivals, would be about f0", while he felt that 1,000 would be so affected as to become active workers who had heretofore lain dormant. This Day in History. 1814 A party of British rairVd several towns and villages along the Rappahannock river in Virginia. 1816 Morrison R. Wait for fif teen years chief Justice of the supreme court of the United States, born at Lyme, Conn. Died in Washington, D. C, March 23, 1888. 1 8 64 General Hood attacked the federals at Spring hill, without deci sive results. 1872 Horace Greeley, famous Jour nalist and presidential candidate, died at Pleaaantvtlle, N. Y. Born at Amherst, N. H., February 3, 1S11. 1879 Marriage of King Alfonso XII of Spain and Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria. 1881 Missouri river improvement convention met at St. Joseph, with four states and two territories repre sented. 1884 Captain David L. Payne, fa mous leader of Oklahoma boomers, died at Wellington, Kan. 1891 The Cherokee Council agreed with the United States commissioners to sell the Cherokee strip for $8,700, 000 . 1898 The steamer Portland, bound from Boston to Portland, Me., foun dered in a gale off Cape Cod, with a loss of 118 Uvea. 1904 Fanny Janauschek, famous actress, died at Amityville, N. Y. Born at Prague, Bohemia, May 10, 1827 The Day We Celebrate. R. W. Gardner, in charge of ihe Omaha branch of the Otis Elevatur company, of which he is vice presi dent, is just 48 years old. He was born In Dearborn, Mich., coming here from Chicago. William G. Lee, president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, and one of the leaders in the fight for the eight-hour day, bom at La Prairie, 111., fifty-seven years ago todav. Dr, Theobald von Bethmann-Holl-weg, German Imperial chancellor, born in the province of Brandenberg, sixty years ago today. Miss Ellen C. Sabtn. for twenty-five years president of Milwaukee-Dormer college, born in Dane county, Wis., sixty-six years ago today. Trixie Friganza, one of the well known actresses of the American stage, bora in Cincinnati, forty-six years ago today. Joseph E. Davies, chairman of the Federal Trade commission, born at Watertown, Wis., forty years ago to day. Edwin P. Morrow, Kentucky repub lican leader and candidate for gover nor in 1915, born at Somerset, Ky., thirty-eight years ago today. Carl E. Weilman, pitcher of the St. Louis American league base ball team, born at Hamilton, O., twenty-seven years ago today. Timely Jottings and Reminders. The first savtngs bank in the United States was organised in New York City 100 years ago today, but the first to go into actual operation opened its doors in Philadelphia five days later. Today is the centennial anniversary of the birth of Morrison R. Waite, chief Justice of the supreme court of the United States from 1874 until his death in 1888. Jesse Pomeroy, who has passed forty years In solitary confinement in the Massachusetts state prison under life sentence for the diabolical mur der of little children, reaches his fifty seventh birthday anniversary today. A strike of waiters and cooks em ployed in Boston hotels and restaur ants is possible Thanksgiving morning if the demand of the employes, calling for a wage advance. Is not granted at today's conference with the employers. The federal committee on arms plants Is to meet in Washington today to consider the advisability of the government manufacturing Its own arms, instead of purchasing them from private manufacturers. Storyctte of the Day. Samaon snored peacefully while De lilah snipped at his locks. "Do you want it cut round or square on the neck?" she asked. No answer. "Would you like a seafoam or shampoo ? No reply. "Hair is getting a trifle thin on top. Would you like a little tonic? Silence. "Have yoor whiskers trimmed?" More silence. "Next!" Whereupon Samaon climbed out of the chair, gazed into a mirror, then rushed into the street and pulled down a temple. Indianapolis Star. SO Cocktails and Turkey. Chicago, 111., Nov. 28. To the Editor of The Bee: "I say, why do you omit the cherry in this Manhattan cocktail?" waa the query put to the genial and economical waiter in one of the popular rstauranta in this city last night by a reputable clever young civil engineer. "We can't afford that now with the prices of everything advanced," was the reply. "We must have 20 cents straight for Manhattans without cherries. All farm products cost more now than formerly and before the war." The engineer man and his partner drank the insipid, weak but expensive mixture in silence and left the place, vowing never to return, and wonder ing what next would happen in the "high cost of living" game. The president of the United States raised the wages of a few railroad laborers and promised the railroad presidents to use his best efforts to secure an advance of $100,000,000 an nually in freight rates, and for ail these blessings showered on these men by Mr. Wilson they will renew their thanks to Woodrow and a kind provi dence next Thursday while eating their 38 to 40-cent-per-pound turkey that they have been enabled to buy at the expense of the rest of the un fortunate consumers not engaged in the railroad or farming business. It is said the president will oppose Congressman Fitzgerald's embargo bill for foodstuffs in the interest of the farmers, who in solemn council at Washington this week protested against embargo legislation and lower prices for farm products. At Baltimore on the same day the official representatives of American workingmen asked for an embargo and cheaper food for their children. Woodrow Wilson, with his railroad supporters and farmer friends, will feast and be thankful while eating turkey the American bird while the rest of "humanity," especially in Chi cago, where it is so strenuously be ing suggested that they eat goose and try and give thanks for their bounteous "privations" and higher cost of liv ing than is being enjoyed in London or Berlin; the result of the November election, and the goose, the bird that Is held in such high esteem in Ger many. OLD VETERAN. lar school of medicine whether In will or not. It is not fair. It is ru t open competition. publicity will destroy the effort, and Christian Science, if it has done noih ing more, has earned the right lo a fair field and it ought not to be com pelled to fight this battle for public ity. It should come from fair-minded, liberty-loving citizens, no matter what their attitude toward Christian Science may be. CARL E. HERRING. Mistake Cheerfully Corrected. Kearney, Neb., Nov. 27. To the Editor of The Bee: When you pub lished ' the political standing of the officers in the different counties you have me as sheriff of Buffalo county as a democrat, which is a mistake, as ' I am a republican and always have been. S. B. FUNK. Foolishness in the Schools. Omaha, Nov. 28. To the Editor of The Bee: I went down to the Audi torium to Jerry Howard's banquet the other night and there were many good things said there. One that interested me was what the doctor said about the school teachers' pay. I agree with him they should have all that can possibly be given them. They cer tainly work hard enough for it, hav ing from twenty-five to thirty or more of other people's spoiled kids to look after for from five and a half to six hours a day. But there ia one thing I would like to see done and that is all the foolishness cut out of the school. Now my little girl, who is in the eighth grade, has spent sev eral hours these last ten days sticking the end of a spool into liquid paint and patting it on a piece of paper, and like foolishness, time that should have been spent in learning something that will be of use to her in after life. It seems hard to the average man, who has a hard struggle sending his children to school, to have to see them waste their valuable time in some of the foolishness that they do. The doctor spoke of a technical high school, after they had finished the high school. Now a great many people are unable to send their chil dren through the high school and the most that they can plan for is one year in high school. Would it not be a better plan to have a school where the children are taught only the things that will be useful to them In the future in the way of studies? My plan would be a school where they came to school at 9 o'clock; at 10:30 they would all be turned out to run around in the fresh air for ten or fifteen minutes and then home at 12 o'clock, the same plan being carried out in the afternoon, the time being taken up with studies such as I had when I went to school arith metic, geography, grammar, spelling and reading. As it looks to me now children in the eighth grade are wasting a great deal of their time on kindergarten work. I have often wished there was some public school in Omaha that would teach only the useful things where I could put my children. It seems to me there would be a great demand for entrance to such a school. A DISCOURAGED PARENT. Fair Play for Christian Science. Omaha, Neb., Nov. 28. To the Editor of The Bee: A writer in a sectarian paper that circulates among your readers criticise a Christian Scientist for making a distinction be tween a physician and a surgeon and suggests that God intended "man should profit by the skill of physi cians and surgeons, else he never would have given man the mental capacity to do some of the miracles of modern surgery " The underlying mistake of this writ er, shared by a great many people, is in thinking that Christian Scientists have some kind of a warfare against physicians. The most casual observer will have noted that whatever activities Chris tian Scientists have shown in legis lation, litigation of publicity, and we will admit not often having been asleep at the switch, there never has been one step taken seeking to cur tail the right of the physician to prac tice his profession or the freedom of the citizen to select the healing meth od of his choice. Christian Scientists appeal to the legislatures and to the courts only for the purpose of obtaining the same freedom freedom to practice and freedom to select Christian Science. The medical fraternity, through the specious argument of protecting the public against itself, has invoked leg islatures and the couvts to deny to the citizen this freedom of choice. This system of curtailment appears in two forma one to make unlawful the practice of Christian Science and the other, by a brood of bills presented and to be presented to the legislatures of the various states, relating to in surance, compensation acts, medical inspection and a number of others not yet fully incubated, by which the citizen will not be entitled to his con tract rights, his remedy for injuries sustained, Insurance, educational ad vantages for his children and so on, unless he has In some form come in contact with a physician as defined and limited by the act itself. It is needless to say that Christian Science and a number of other schools are without the pale in these propo sals and So fast as legislatures are in duced to see the merits of these meas ures and overlook their relation to the practice of medicine Just so fast will the citizen be harnessed to the regu- MIRTHFUL REMARKS. "Jim always manages to stty the wrong thingr." "What's'he been sayinir now?" "When he saw Smith under his auto, which' had turned turtle, he laughed and said, 'Welt. Jims, this is a horse on you." Balti more American. Mother (coming from pantry) Robert, did you pick all the white meat off this chicken ? Bobby Well, ma, to make a clean breast of It, I did. Boston Transcript W 1UU WINK KIT INltNPfcU ftflHQ Iti LAM VttU. BE fMED f XHAWD HtMA'IWORR BtffHBIER MAkE A WTWEWfTVCrirOHEt Mrs. Cornier (on a tour of Inspection tn her friend's house) Gracious! Why do you have such a high bed for your little boy? Mrs. Housler So we can hear him If he folia out. You have no idea what heavy sleepers my husband and I are. Chicago News. 4 "What will we do for light? Here's the current gone and the gas turned off. It we only had some candles." "Well, tell Gladys to tend us those taper fingers she makes so much fuss over." Baltimore American. THE AUTUMN FESTIVAL. Edith M. Thomas. I found one flower of heavenly blue Upon a southward bourne; "What bloom art thou, that wakeat now, On verge of days forlorn. No kin of thine the fields to bless r' Then, spirit-eyed, the flower replied: "I am the plant of Thankfulness, I bloom when all the fields be shorn." I heard one last sweet song on wing It rose at sunset lone; "What bird is this, when woodlands raiaa The chorus once their own Dismantled by the tempest's stress?" A fluted note did earthward float: "I am the song of Thankfulness. Set free when other songs be flown." Thanksgiving comes In autumn! Aye, Thou heart within my breast; Now thou art old, thy best Joys told Yet one outlives the rest. 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